Synopsis
The human adventure is just beginning.
When a destructive space entity is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine, and hopefully stop it.
1979 Directed by Robert Wise
When a destructive space entity is spotted approaching Earth, Admiral Kirk resumes command of the Starship Enterprise in order to intercept, examine, and hopefully stop it.
William Shatner Leonard Nimoy DeForest Kelley James Doohan George Takei Walter Koenig Nichelle Nichols Stephen Collins Persis Khambatta Majel Barrett Grace Lee Whitney Mark Lenard Billy Van Zandt Roger Aaron Brown Gary Faga Franklyn Seales Joel Kramer David Gautreaux John Gowans Howard Itzkowitz Jon Rashad Kamal Marcy Lafferty Michele Povill Jeri McBride Terrence O'Connor Michael Rougas Susan O'Sullivan Ralph Brannen Ralph Byers Show All…
Richard L. Anderson Bill Varney Stephen Hunter Flick Steve Maslow Colin Waddy Gregg Landaker Alan Robert Murray Cecelia Hall George Watters II Tom Overton Noyan Cosarer
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Avoided this for years because people said it was boring. And, like, sure. It's less exciting than a DS9 two parter. But most likely so are you. And I seriously doubt you ever gave the world a freaky proto-Borg villain who speaks like her voice is coming out of a wii-mote or DeForest Kelley dressed like the inventor of cocaine. So maybe shut the fuck up and have some respect.
84/100
Methodically pure sci-fi; a world with icons instead of characters and vast emptiness in place of pop western operatics. "The Motion Picture" takes inspiration from classical cinema - an overture greeted me when I clicked 'play' and I was sold from then on - and the inherent fascination of movement; people, places, technology, and all the imprints they leave. Robert Wise, a master filmmaker who utilized dance (West Side Story), physical fright (A frantic, insane Eleanor in The Haunting), and an absence of movement for cinematic means (the alien visitor in The Day The Earth Stood Still is scary because he hardly moves), is in love not only with Star Trek, but with the movies and their romantic allure.…
When you get down to brass tacks, this still has about 40 minutes smack in the middle that are just a bunch of people in awful, awful beige jumpsuits watching a big television. Even in 1979 you'd have to wonder who thought this would make for an exciting adventure, but certainly by today's standards it's so anomalously slow and pensive and thoughtful (not to mention the incredible miniature effects), and I just can't help but kind of love it. The spacedock flyby of the refitted Enterprise lasts almost six minutes! Unheard of now, and in fact I can't safely say that if such a thing were to occur in a modern studio event feature like this that I wouldn't be bitching about it being excruciatingly boring. But there you have it. Add it to the list of largely disliked movies I really have a soft spot for just because they are weird.
Never saw more than a few minutes of this because of its reputation for being boring, but having now finally watched the whole thing... I'm sorry, we're all thinking of the same "Star Trek," right? Is this not basically an episode of the show you all like, but with cool 2001: A Space Odyssey-style special effects? Yeah, it's talky and maybe a little slow. Of course it is. You can't take a Star Trek that's talky and a little slow? The theatre marked "Star Wars" is just down the hall, you animals, you savages. Go have fun with that, you absolute children.
yes, it’s incredibly slow, there’s barely a plot and what little there is rests on your familiarity with the characters. but this is a beautiful movie to look at and i think that if you can vibe with its mood then you’re in for a treat. best enjoyed with substances.
Slow and methodical but I dig that... It’s like an extended Original Series episode that opens the floodgates to the vastness of the universe guided by that all timer Jerry Goldsmith score, fantastic visuals, and interesting takes on enlightenment, inner peace, and finding oneself.
The human condition.
I started watching STAR TREK with my dad via network syndication during the early 90’s, he’d get home late and always miss the intro stinger and he’d ask me to tell him what happened even though he already knew, he just wanted to hear me emphaticly talk about it with that childlike wonder. That show and the first six movies mean so damn much to me it would be hard to even attempt to put to…
Deathly serious movie about an intergalactic destructive cloud that features long stretches of people politely speaking in Naval command instructions on a flight deck. Almost entirely action-free and unusually philosophical about the nature of existence, even by Trekkian standards. WRATH OF KHAN is the standard-bearer in my mind, but this has a methodical, almost religious approach that is shocking for such a high-budgeted post-STAR WARS science fiction feature. You can feel the weight of CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND on it. The big reveal, when the crew discovers what “V’ger” stands for, is downright hilarious. But the conclusion foretells the same A.I. anxiety that animated a lot of Kubrick’s work. The production design and tech has aged poorly, but the intent never expires.
It's life, Captain, but not life as we know it.
-Spock
That quote could be changed to "It's Star Trek, Captain, but not Star Trek as we know it." This bloated mess of a film seems to take it's visual queues from films like 2001: A Space Odyssey instead of the television series it's based on. As a result the 90 minute story is ballooned to a 132 minute running time with most of the filler being that of a film that seems to be in awe of it's own visual effects.
The visuals are impressive however, but scenes like the introduction of the new Enterprise and later on it's passage within the space cloud are both pacing nightmares. While…
“Why is every object we don’t understand always called a thing?”
A pissed off bearded McCoy rocking some exposed chest hair and some weird medallion… a forever mood if there ever was one.
I defend this movie at length -- the only way to defend this long, slow movie -- at ScreenCrush.